Take a deep breath and dive in a fresh, clear water! Looking through these underwater paintings and you start to immediately remember what it feels like it. That moment when the world’s worries wash away and a sense of calmness overtakes your body. Zener calls that shared feeling...

“My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment and put a smile on your face, » says Florentijn Hofman the artist. « They give people a break from their daily routines. Passers-by stop in front of them and enter into conversation with other spectators » Hofman’s famous giant duck has floated in waters around...

It could be very easy to go overboard on forest/nature inspired creations. Since years nature had already inspired painters, designers and creators in different ways. Still, when I see these beautiful furnishings, I think that we could definitively let trees, flowers and plants of all kinds totally overrun our...

These incredible snaps were taken by photographers Nick Selway, 28, and friend CJ Kale, 35. CJ, from Hawaii. Specialized in risky pictures they positioned themselves directly under the waves as they crashed above their heads. They explained how taking their time was the secret to their success. « We spend most...

Photographer Aaron Durand’s takes long exposure light paintings of trains which give new meaning to the term « faster than the speed of light. » Those pictures are so beautiful, we’ll never look at the trains the same way we did before… Share This:

In the middle of Gobi desert stands Ordos a brand new city as a result of a bureaucraty’s’ utopia. An ideal city built in six years in Inner Mongolia evolving from a rural culture into a glistening (and strangely underpopulated) vision of the future Shaped like a large undulating blob,...

Is it a sculpture ? A rock ? A bunker of a new kind ? The new Pass Museum is part of the Timmelsjoch Experience designed by italian architect Werner Tscholl, and is located in the mountains of Austria. A road, once a mule track, links the Passeiertal valley and...

In Netherlands Utrecht-based studio Zecc Architects has converted a catholic church built in 1870 into a spectacular spacious house of 475 m2. If you need a more spacy home, this renovated church is for sale ! More information on Woonkerkxl. Share This:

« Bosco Verticale » designed by italian architect Stefano Boeri is under construction in Milan ((it was finished in 2014, NDLR). Composed of two residential towers of 110 and 76 meters height, it will be realized in the centre of Milan, on the edge of the Isola neighbourhood, and will host 900...

Is it because Fall started few days ago that we feel the call of the forest ? Here are a selection of amazing product designs reminding us that we are wild. Forms in Nature is a chandelier, by artist Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz, that casts a shadow of wild trees all around a...

I don’t know if it’s because I need some vacations, but I love airports. When I was a kid, I remember that what a place crowded with busy and elegant people going who knows where… One of my best wishes at this time : pick a departure, any departure and fly away ! Here are...

Preparing his marriage proposal, Matthew Hartman had almost planned everything : the romantic seaside, the song, the guitar, the ring… Except this ! By the way, what did his girlfriend Elisabeth finally say ? … YES !! Photographer Jon Hwang was hired to document the moment and was able to capture the crashing waves as...

Those amazing pictures of women at work were captured by photographer Alfred T. Palmer on color reversal film, taken for the Office of War Information; an agency created to release war news, promote patriotism, and recruit women to work. It’s amazing to notice how elegant looked all those hard working women. ...

Usually bridges have a specific function : helping people to pass from one bank to another… They are designed by very serious people, engineers who have studied those superstructures in order they will resist for years, even with the worst weather conditions or unforeseen safety problem… In this selection bridges are quiet different… « Pont de...

All around the world, architects have imagined the most amazing projects for students, books lovers or simple readers. Let’s make a tour among these truly inspiring libraries. 2/ IN CHINA 3/ IN THE NETHERLANDS 4/ IN GERMANY 5/IN NORWAY 6/IN BREZIL 7/ IN FRANCE 8/ IN JAPAN 9/ IN SWEDEN 10/IN KAZAKHSTAN...